COSEE New Collaborations: Toward broader Ocean Learning Communities through field research learning.

海洋调查项目（OIP）将与COSEE海洋学习社区（COSEE-OLC）合作，在关心海洋环境的不同社区之间建立，促进和研究学习合作，这是COSEE-OLC的一个具体目标。国际海洋学办公室和COSEE-OLC都有一个共同的目标，即使公民更加了解海洋科学，了解当前的研究，以便更好地参与海洋环境的管理。COSEE-OLC目前正在开发一个由以下社区组成的海洋学习社区：海洋养护和环境志愿团体、海洋科学家、正式和非正式教育工作者、当地商界领袖，和科学学习专家。为此，COSEE-OLC提供演讲者介绍，社区聚会，研讨会和实地经验，参与者在此期间互动并相互学习专业知识和经验。所有活动都旨在促进海洋科学学习，并促进就相关问题进行持续对话。OIP提供调查为基础的，船上海洋学领域的经验，以不同的人口的小学和中学的学生，社区大学团体，和俱乐部服务于市中心的弱势群体。 与OIP合作将提供研究巡航，作为志愿者组织，当地商业团体和海洋科学家之间互动的工具。这些航行促进了志愿人员和科学家在非学术、真实的世界环境中的双向交流。COSEE-OLC学习社区成员通过获取海洋科学知识，更好地了解海洋学研究和技术，大规模海洋学过程对其工作的影响以及与海洋科学家的新联系而受益。参与的科学家将通过向非科学观众提供材料，看到新的观点和思考的问题，并与对科学感兴趣的当地团体建立新的联系来获得经验。 合作提供实地学习经验将扩大COSEE-OLC正在开发和测试的学习经验的范围。通过实地体验的双向互动进一步推动了该中心的总体目标，即培养功能，贡献和海洋知识的公民，他们意识到海洋对他们日常生活的影响。通过这种方法，该中心逐步建立不同群体之间的共同语言，以促进以科学为基础的海洋教育和学习在公共层面上，通过接触来自环境组织，非正式教育工作者和当地企业领导人的志愿者在普吉特海湾实地学习经验的海洋学研究，OIP补充和加强COSEE-OLC的工作。反过来，这些团体接触到了中心不会直接影响的受众：在退潮时与海滩上的志愿者进行随意互动的普通公众，在商务会议后聊天的公司高管，或在湿地项目期间的保护活动家。扩大海洋知识的一个重要手段是通过口头传播，使海洋科学原则成为共同知识的一部分。 此外，参加这些实地经验的海洋学研究生将接触到一系列公民级别的活动，他们应该了解并欣赏对海洋环境的有益影响。总的来说，由于这些团体活动的自由选择学习性质，这种合作将接触到比直接接触的受众更加多样化和广泛分布的受众。

Ocean Inquiry Project (OIP) will collaborate with COSEE Ocean Learning Communities (COSEE-OLC) to create, promote, and study learning collaborations among diverse communities that care about the oceanic environment, a specific goal of COSEE-OLC. Both OIP and COSEE-OLC share the goal of making citizens more knowledgeable about ocean science and informed by current research in order to become better, more involved stewards of the marine environment.COSEE-OLC is currently developing an Ocean Learning Community composed of the following communities: volunteer-based marine conservation and environmental groups, ocean scientists, formal and informal educators, local business leaders, and science-learning experts. To this end COSEE-OLC provides speaker presentations, community gatherings, workshops, and field experiences during which participants interact and learn from each other's expertise and experiences. All events are designed to facilitate ocean sciences learning and foster continued dialogue about related issues. OIP provides inquiry-based, ship-board oceanographic field experiences to a diverse population of primary and secondary students, community college groups, and clubs serving inner-city disadvantaged groups. Collaborating with OIP will provide research cruises as a vehicle for interaction between volunteer-based organizations, local businesses groups, and ocean scientists. The cruises facilitate two-way communication between volunteers and scientists in a non-academic, real world setting. COSEE-OLC learning community members benefit through acquisition of ocean science knowledge, better understanding of oceanographic research and techniques, the impact of large-scale oceanographic processes on their work, and new connections with ocean scientists. Participating scientists will gain experience by delivering material to non-scientific audiences, seeing new perspectives and questions to ponder, and making new connections to local groups interested in science. Collaborating to provide field learning experiences will augment the range of learning experiences that COSEE-OLC is developing and testing. The two-way interaction through a field experience furthers the overarching goal of the center to cultivate functional, contributing and ocean-literate citizens who are aware of the impact oceans have on their daily lives. With this approach, the center progresses toward building a common language among diverse groups to promote science-based ocean education and learning at the public level.By exposing volunteers from environmental organizations, informal educators, and local business leaders to oceanographic research during field learning experiences on Puget Sound, OIP complements and enhances the work of COSEE-OLC. These groups, in turn, reach audiences that the center would not directly affect: the general public engaged in casual interaction with volunteers on a beach at low tide, a fellow corporate executive chatting after a business meeting, or conservation activists during a wetlands project. One significant means of expanding ocean literacy is through word of mouth distribution to make ocean science principles part of common knowledge. Further, oceanography graduate students who participate in these field experiences will be exposed to a range of citizen-level activities they should be knowledgeable about and appreciate for the beneficial effects on the marine environment. Over all, this collaboration will reach a far more diverse and widely distributed audience than that which it directly engages due the free-choice learning character of the activities of these groups.